'96 Elections
.... the candidates and there are some between
the possible vice-presidents. The speakers must be very good at thinking of
something to say quickly and making their point clear to the audience in order
to make a difference in the debates. The debates are a time to show the
audience the flaws the other candidate might have and to also show them the good
things that you may have to offer them as their president or vice-president.
Dole is the major republican candidate for president. One of Dole's major
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Australians Against Further Immigration
.... are a non-racist organisation and attempts to convert the debate to one of
race and emotion is a deliberate ploy to silence critics and avoid the real
issues. We believe in freedom of speech. The philosopher Spinoza said, “In a
free state every man can think what he wants and say what he thinks”. This
should apply here to debates on immigration.
We care about Australia and want to pass our heritage to our children and their
children. We want to preserve our Australian identity. We stress that mi .....
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A Balanced Budget?
.... How hard can it be to balance the budget I thought? After doing
the exercised I realized the title of the simulation exercise, "The FY 1997
Budget: An Exercise in Hard Choices," could not have been more appropriate. It
is possible though to balance the Federal Budget, provided you follow 3 simple
rules. First you must decide what you feel is important, then cut without
consciousness, and if that doesn't work, alter your baseline.
Important Choices
When deciding on what I thought was important to pr .....
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Accountability Of Our Government
.... impact as a government." Without accountability we are left with a powerful
political structure that has the ability to act without conscience or redress
and this does not represent a modern democracy. With any discussion which
focuses on responsibility within parliament, one can see the varying levels of
accountability and the difficulties which arise when attempting to describe
power, within the Canadian political system. Accountability in the public
service can be studied from two different persp .....
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The Four Political Parties Of Canada
.... to think of them being a national political
party, even though they hold a significant number of seats in the national
legislature. This paper will examine the significant early history of Canada's
four main national political parties, and then will analyse their current state,
referring to recent major political victories/disasters, and the comparison of
major economic policy standpoints, which will ultimately lead to a prediction of
which party will win the next federal election in Canada.
Startin .....
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Affirmative Action
.... must initiate plans to increase
the proportions of their female and minority employees until they are equal to
the proportions existing in the available labor market.(Grolier's Electric
Encyclopedia, 1993)
Affirmative action plans that establish racial quotas were declared
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the case of University of California VS.
Bakke in 1978. This case arose when the medical school of the University of
California at Davis twice rejected Allen Bakke's application while admitting
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Affirmative Action
.... the top executive
positions are still out of reach for members of these groups not because these
people are not qualified for the jobs, but because they are discriminated
against. Legislation, including the federal Employment Equity Act, exists to
ensure employment equity. Such legislation requires employers to report what
proportion of their employees belong to these four groups. Employers must then
prove that all groups are equally represented at all levels within their
organizations.
Affirmative act .....
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An Ethical And Practical Defense Of Affirmative Action
.... forces that impede a fair
assessment of their capabilities.
In this essay I will expose what I see as the shortcomings of the current
ethical attacks on affirmative action (1), the main one being, that these
attacks are devoid of proper historical context and shrouded in white male
hegemony and privilege. Then, I will discuss the moral and ethical issues raised
by continuing to function within a system that systematically disadvantages
historically marginalized groups. With that as a backdrop, I will m .....
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Affirmative Action
.... just more
confusion. This is because there is a lot of gray in the law concerning this
topic. Sometimes courts allow someone to choose the minority if they are less
qualified, while in other cases they don't allow it. For example in a supreme
court decision, it was allowed for a Michigan school district to layoff non-
minority teachers in order to hire minority teachers with less
experience(Altschiller, p13). If a similar case were to appear again the result
would most likely be different.
In no case .....
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Affirmative Action: Solution Or Confusion?
.... force; as a result, I
have encountered many discriminatory comments pertaining to their positions.
The first remark I usually receive suggests that they were hired for their
position solely based on gender. Another comment which I usually receive is,
"Well, being a woman probably didn't hurt their resume." Both of my relatives
are very good at their jobs; one was even on the popular television show, Cops.
Neither of them are "wimps", yet most males look down upon them as being hired
because of affirma .....
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Affirmative Action: Public OPinion Vs. Policy
.... just no other was besides
affirmative action to level the playing field in certain businesses.And so the
disparity in public opinion begins. A racially-divided America creates separate
groups, which "Affirmative Action issue taps a fundamental cleavage in American
Society" (Gamson and Modigliani 170)--each with their own view of affirmative
action on different sides of the line. Government attempts to create policy
based upon the voice of the people but affirmative action seems to present an
almost un-s .....
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All Men Created Equal
.... and the meaning of those words
as they related to American citizens and the celebration of the 4th of July.
Many American's argued that the Negroes were not entitled to the same rights
because they were not legally citizens of the United States of America. This
issue was dealt with in the ruling of the Dredd Scott case. Lincoln points out
that the ruling of the case was based on historical fact that was wrongly
assumed. Judge Taney, who presided over the case stated that "Negroes were no
p .....
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What Leads To Intervention?: A Case Study Of Intervention During The Bush Administration
.... would have to carefully tread.
The world order that President Bush inherited was of a vastly different
character then that of all his predecessors. The Cold War environment that the
world had just left behind had provided a clear framework for national security
policy and the use of the US military. The environment that Bush walked into was
an environment filled with disagreement and confusion over the new framework
with which the US should operate. It was also an environment with which th .....
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Katha Pollitt's Argument About Media Being Biased Against Liberals And Allan Levite's Argument That Media Is Biased Against Conservatives
.... harassment, or it could have been
because she carried Spam around on her forehead. She only names two cases as her
examples. So in her magical "evil people bash feminism land" her argument is
just as common as what she is complaining about, or maybe less common. No one is
trying to bash feminism. This was not planned out to happen. (I hope)
Also, kids in elementary school always are not thinking about getting
their secretaries to have sex with them for raises. Personally, I think kids are
st .....
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Apartheid In South Africa
.... eight times as much as the average
black man. Coloureds earn three times as much as black while colords earn well
over half of what whites earn.
During Apartheid, media censorship was at an all time high. People were
even banned from showing Soweto on television. It was common to see a newspaper
shut down, and then start again after being halted by the government.
Up until 1985, mixed marriages were banned. This meant that a person of
one race cold not marry a person of another race. Aparth .....
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